Donata Berra is the author of four poetry collections, most recently A Memoria di Mare / As the Sea Remembers (Casagrande 2010). Born and raised in Milan, Berra lives in Switzerland, where she teaches Italian language and literature at the University of Berne. Berra has also translated the work of many Swiss and German authors into Italian.

Charif Shanahan is an M.F.A. candidate in poetry at NYU and a graduate of Princeton University and Dartmouth College. His poems, translations, and critical essays have appeared in The Nassau Literary Review, Troubadour, The CLD: A Journal of Comparative Literature, and Explosion-Proof. Originally from the Bronx, he lives in Brooklyn.